Painful as it may be, a significant emotional event can be the catalyst for choosing a direction that serves us – and those around us – more effectively. Look for the learning.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTTWe can’t any of us do all we would like, but we can do our best for every case that comes to us, and that helps amazingly.
More Louisa May Alcott Quotes
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I’d rather take coffee than compliments now.
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Men are always ready to die for us, but not to make our lives worth having. Cheap sentiment and bad logic.
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One of the sweet things about pain and sorrow is that they show us how well we are loved, how much kindness there is in the world, and how easily we can make others happy in the same way when they need help and sympathy.
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It’s lovely to see people so happy.
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Father asked us what was God’s noblest work. Anna said men, but I said babies. Men are often bad, but babies never are.
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Many argue; not many converse.
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Well, if I can’t be happy, I can be useful, perhaps.
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It takes very little fire to make a great deal of smoke nowadays, and notoriety is not real glory.
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Some people seemed to get all sunshine, and some all shadow.
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Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.
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Where the heart is the mind works best.
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Better lose your life than your soul.
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Have regular hours for work and play; make each day both useful and pleasant, and prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well. Then youth will be delightful, old age will bring few regrets, and life will become a beautiful success.
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The duty we owe ourselves is greater than that we owe others.
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I like to help women help themselves, as that is, in my opinion, the best way to settle the woman question. Whatever we can do and do well we have a right to, and I don’t think any one will deny us.
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